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Trojans Care – Gatekeeper Training for Faculty & Staff

The overall goal of Trojans Care, a bystander and gatekeeper program, is to create a caring and helpful community. Members will become more comfortable in helping those in need and become more aware of support resources. Specific objectives include:

Raising awareness of helping behaviors

Increasing motivation to help

Developing the skills and confidence in responding to problems or concerns

Understanding the campus support resources and how to refer appropriately community members to those resources

Ensuring the safety and well-being of self and all others in the community

Most problematic behaviors on college campuses involve bystanders. Trojans Care training provides a framework explaining the bystander effect, reviews relevant research, and teaches skills for intervening successfully using the 5 Decision Making Steps, and the S.E.E. Model (Safe; Early; Effective).

Students, faculty, and staff are encountering multiple situations where bystander intervention would be appropriate including, among other things, alcohol abuse, suicide, homicide, eating disorders, sexual assault, and discrimination. The bottom line is that many, if not most, unfortunate results are PREVENTABLE.

It is our sincere hope that this training will help community members learn strategies and techniques to intervene directly or indirectly in both emergency and non-emergency situations. In the training, we discuss real-life situations/scenarios. Our goal is to generate open, honest, and non-judgmental discussions about the material presented. This training is not meant to cover all possible scenarios or variables, nor is it meant to train you to be a counselor. The health, safety, and wellbeing of all Trojans is dependent upon the engagement, knowledge, and action of our community members.